​An optimist with a penchant for creating realistic solutions to the challenges of everyday life, John is the author of several books and an engaging public speaker who brings a unique and refreshingly positive point of view to life's seemingly overwhelming situations.

Through books, blogs, and everyday conversation, John's message resonates with an empowering blend of ideals that enrich, uplift, and “authorize” people to set and achieve goals far beyond current mindsets.

His trademarked phrase is a winner:

Accept. Adapt. Achieve! ®

Optimistic Realist || Consultant

​John H. Clark III is an optimistic realist.

​He believes better development of leaders is what we (all) need. And to be better organizations, we need more good leaders (not followers). To build better leaders, we must start with the most basic type of organization: the individual (you, she, he, and me).

Described as “an innovative leader,” John teaches leaders, organizations, and individuals how to inspire each other. With a bold goal to inspire a worldwide community of optimistic realists who continuously create, live, and share the bold, beautiful, and bountiful concept of The Ideal Life, John is leading a movement to inspire people to apply his trademarked mantra {Accept. Adapt. Achieve! ®}.

An innovative business manager and retired naval officer, John is fascinated by leaders and organizations that make the greatest impact within their organizational culture and within the “real” world — people who “get it.” Over the course of his life as a military leader, corporate mentor, and innovative content creator, John has discovered a wealth of insight about how we think, act and communicate within our respective work/life environments. As a career naval officer, mentor, educator, and optimistic realist, he has devoted his life to sharing insights to assist in our quests to become better at what we all do – live @ work!

A staunch community and education advocate, John founded TeenBuilding USA, ​a non-profit organization organized for the purpose of increasing high school graduation rates, promoting higher education, and providing a positive venue for teens to develop life leadership skills that emphasize personal and academic accountability.